Comment Putatively (Score 3) 200
word of the day
Comment #Texas (Score -1, Troll) 337
'nuff said.
Comment The topic was resolved at... (Score 1) 304
"Functionally, the operators are equivalent, so which ones you use is largely a matter of personal preference"
Comment Re:Keep her in Mexico! (Score 1, Insightful) 144
lol. funny. not. derivative.
Comment TaxiMeter, not 'meter' (Score 1) 106
This whole lawsuit is a case of technicality, and commentary on it is often misguided because of confusing "meter" the verb and common noun with a "TaxiMeter", which is a specific thing. If Uber drivers had TaxiMeters in their cars, then the lawsuit is valid. Otherwise, not.
Comment Re:Dumbest technicality *ever*. (Score 1) 106
It works like a meter, but isn't one, and that's the point. It's the kind of idiotic pointless technicality-based arguments I used to have with my brother. "I said I'd save you a piece, but I didn't say I'd do it today!"
Comment Examples of violations please (Score 1) 136
What are some of these "violation of license" situations? It's kind of hard to judge Oracle without knowing what these situations are... genuine breaches or not?
Comment Re:Bad design? (Score 2) 64
because laziness.
Comment Re:Wow! (Score 5, Insightful) 92
Perhaps a subset of that million just believes in "paying it back" to the journalistic institutions of their communities. Just saying.
Full disclosure: I'm not a subscriber to any digital publication.
Comment Re:Incorrect (Score 2) 64
Incorrect the largest waves were made by humans when the detonated an H-Bomb.
Your measly wave pool is tiny compared to real power.
The goal is to produce tsunamis without the nuclear fallout.
Comment Three words (Score 1) 115
Virtual Presence Robot
Comment Looks like death by being gored.. (Score 1, Insightful) 160
... and selfie is just the causal action. Same way as surfing/swimming is the causal action in death by shark.
Apples to Oranges.
Comment Unreliable/Un-reproducible studies (Score 1) 133
What else is new.
Comment Re:Autonomous "Driving" needs to be truly driverle (Score 1) 247
>>Expecting a driver to take control in a failure scenario is not a solution. Why not, that is the design philosophy for airliners made in the past 30 years and their pilots who operate them. Sit and babysit the machine for 99.99% of the time; then jump in ready to go for the 0.01% of the time the situation is beyond the programming of the software. (In which case the software 1) does wrong thing. 2) just shuts-down while displaying a message to the pilots to let them know that, suddenly, THEY are flying the plane.)
The problem with this bad analogy is that a pilot is a highly trained vehicle operator, despite the fact that planes are largely being flown by computers. Passengers (see how I said passengers, not drivers) in a driverless car are expected to be the opposite of that.
Comment Old News (Score 2) 51
I believe men everywhere have been embracing complex soft bodies since time immemorial...
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